I shut down my i7-950. Today was really hot and the breaker for my office kept tripping. I thought that was odd since I've been running like that for a while and haven't changed anything. The a/c only pulls 475watts and I had measured the 1090t at 100w even. The 950 though was pulling almost 300w at 3.6ghz. I knocked it down to 3.1ghz and it was still around 250w.

Now technically, since the total even with the other stuff in here should be less than 1500w, it shouldn't be an issue, but apparently it was. I now have that rig on another circuit so I could actually run it, but at 300w, it costs me about $40/month. Since my a/c usage is going to be insane, I'm shutting that rig down, probably permanently. I'll transfer the OS to a virtual machine so I can run it on another rig if there is something in there I need. Hopefully I'll get my act together and start parting it out.

I shut down my i7-950. Today was really hot and the breaker for my office kept tripping. I thought that was odd since I've been running like that for a while and haven't changed anything. The a/c only pulls 475watts and I had measured the 1090t at 100w even. The 950 though was pulling almost 300w at 3.6ghz. I knocked it down to 3.1ghz and it was still around 250w.

Now technically, since the total even with the other stuff in here should be less than 1500w, it shouldn't be an issue, but apparently it was. I now have that rig on another circuit so I could actually run it, but at 300w, it costs me about $40/month. Since my a/c usage is going to be insane, I'm shutting that rig down, probably permanently. I'll transfer the OS to a virtual machine so I can run it on another rig if there is something in there I need. Hopefully I'll get my act together and start parting it out.

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yeah those old 1366 cpus uses insane amounts of power when overclpcked just a bit

Just installed a Delta fan I had sitting around, using it as a exhaust fan on my H50. Hopefully it'll help with temps. I'm currently only running it at 2,000RPMs instead of the 3,400RPMs it's rated for. But it still moves more air than my other fans.

You're such a geek (I'm guilty of copy pasting stats to excel to analyse)

It's nice to see we are on an upwards trend despite the summer jerkyness. F150 is certainly helping that but think we might need to start another campaign for new recruits.

As for your i7 950, try replace it with another 2600K, they really make for power efficient crunchers (33PPD/Watt @4.6GHz). Then if you upgrade later to SB-E or BD, you can always sell the 2600K's back to other crunchers for a good deal. Well, my $0.02 anyway